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Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna - Schumann: Piano Concerto; Brahms: Handel Variations (2018)

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Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna - Schumann: Piano Concerto; Brahms: Handel Variations (2018)

Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna - Schumann: Piano Concerto; Brahms: Handel Variations (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 59:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 4833288 | Recorded: 1979, 2001

Live recordings from Austrian Radio broadcasts (ORF) released for the very first time by one of the greatest musicians of all time. The Schumann Piano Concerto requires virtually everything a pianist should have to offer: poetry, virtuosity, poised restraint – Brendel passes the test on all accounts with his passionate, insightful and refreshing interpretation.

Alfred Brendel - Franz Schubert: The Complete Impromptus; Moments Musicaux (1997)

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Alfred Brendel - Franz Schubert: The Complete Impromptus; Moments Musicaux (1997)

Alfred Brendel - Franz Schubert: The Complete Impromptus; Moments Musicaux (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 534 Mb | Total time: 135:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 456 061-2 | Recorded: 1971-1974

It's hard to imagine better performances of these works, either technically or emotionally. Brendel takes a relatively straight line through the works that reveals their varied emotional glory. This is beauty through structure, realized though a heartfelt and thoroughly considered, yet spontaneous-sounding performance. This wonderous music is simple in form, but beautiful and emotional when played spectacularly well as here by Brendel.

Alfred Brendel - Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen (1990)

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Alfred Brendel - Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen (1990)

Alfred Brendel - Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:38 | 170 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips Classics | Catalog: 426232

Brendel has now recorded the work three times for the gramophone. At first, on Vox/Turnabout in the early 1960s, he was the brilliant iconoclast before his deeper realization of the work's essentially comic energies. And here I use 'comic' both in the narrow sense of the term (the Diabe/li is, after all, full ofjokes, many of them with the staying-power of the finest Wildean epigrams) and in the broader sense: what Susanne Langer has called, comedy "as an image of human vitality holding its own in the world amid the surprises of unplanned coincidence".

Alfred Brendel - Brendel plays Brahms, Schumann & Schubert (2023)

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Alfred Brendel - Brendel plays Brahms, Schumann & Schubert (2023)

Alfred Brendel - Brendel plays Brahms, Schumann & Schubert (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 531 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 358 Mb | 02:36:01
Classical | Label: Decca Classics

Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is noted for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.

Alfred Brendel, Chicago CO, James Levine - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos (1983) 3CD, Remastered 1997

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Alfred Brendel, Chicago CO, James Levine - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos (1983) 3CD, Remastered 1997

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos (1983) 3CD, Remastered 1997
Alfred Brendel, piano; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 725 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 402 Mb | Scans ~ 29 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | # 456 045-2 | Time: 02:54:44

Recorded live in 1983, Alfred Brendel's third go-round with these works drastically improves on his previous Beethoven concerto cycles. He finds a calmer, more direct route to the Emperor Concerto, although the Fourth's first movement is still pock-marked with finicky phrase adjustments that pull focus from the music's poetic arcs. Levine provides sympathetic and alert support, yet is much more than a mere deferential accompanist.

Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 1 (1994)

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Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner,  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 1 (1994)

Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 1, Nos. 19, 20, 21, 23, 24 (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 158:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips Classics | # 442 269-2 | Recorded: 1971, 1973, 1975, 1981

This first of the two sets contains four indisputable masterpieces. In the stormy D minor Concerto K. 466, Brendel springs a mild surprise by playing his own cadenzas rather than Beethoven's, the ones most often used. I must confess to preferring Beethoven's unstylish but dramatic and imaginative cadenza to the first movement, but otherwise the performance is beyond reproach. Brendel adds some discreet and entirely appropriate ornamentation to the many repetitions of the second movement's main theme. The Olympian C major K. 467, with its incomparably beautiful slow movement, also receives some much-needed decoration: here the cadenzas are by Radu Lupu and are a bit quirkier than necessary.

Alfred Brendel - Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven: Bagatelles & Other Piano Works (2022)

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Alfred Brendel - Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven: Bagatelles & Other Piano Works (2022)

Alfred Brendel - Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven: Bagatelles & Other Piano Works (2022)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 492 MB
3:19:11 | Classical | Label: UMG

Alfred Brendel is the preeminent thinking pianist, a loner to whom fame came through the power of imaginative integrity, an artist who has achieved – at his best – a divinatory rapport with piano literature from Bach to Schoenberg. Yet by his account, "I did not come from a musical or intellectual family….I have not been a child prodigy. I do not have a photographic memory; neither do I play faster than other people. I am not a good sight-reader."

Alfred Brendel, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Mozart: The Piano Concertos (1985)

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Alfred Brendel, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Mozart: The Piano Concertos (1985)

Alfred Brendel, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Mozart: The Piano Concertos (1985)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 634:42 | 2.7 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 416 270-2

A 10 CD Box set with 23 Beautiful Mozart Piano Concertos. Alfred Brendel playing piano. Imogen Cooper also on piano. Accompanied by Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields orchestra. Conducted by Neville Marriner. This set is wonderful: Brendel is at the peak of his art, the conductor and the Orchestra are perfect, the sound is clear and old fashionable, very recommended.

Alfred Brendel - Artist's Choice (2011)

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Alfred Brendel - Artist's Choice (2011)

Alfred Brendel - Artist's Choice (2011)
WEB FLAC (tracks, booklet) - 795 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 497 MB
3:32:35 | Classical | Label: Decca

As Alfred Brendel celebrates his 80th birthday on 5 January 2011, Decca is marking this momentous occasion with FOUR major catalogue releases. He’s a legend of the piano world, revered and applauded the world over. For long an exclusive Philips Classics artist, Alfred Brendel is the recipient of the 2010 Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. Famed for his peerless interpretations of Viennese classics, 2011 sees Brendel celebrate his 80th birthday and for it we present four iconic sets – available at budget price for the first time. Next in the series of Decca’s ‘Artist’s Choice’, Alfred Brendel personally selects recordings that have been significant in his performance and recorded career. Including Bach’s Italian Concerto, Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures’, and Liszt’s ‘Légendes’, this beautifully packaged, 3CD hardcover book, comes with Brendel’s own, personal reminiscences. This limited edition product also includes several currently unavailable recordings.

Alfred Brendel - Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise; Eroica-Variationen Op. 35; 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126; 6 Ecossaises, WoO 83 (1985)

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Alfred Brendel - Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise; Eroica-Variationen Op. 35; 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126; 6 Ecossaises, WoO 83 (1985)

Alfred Brendel - Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise; Eroica-Variationen, Op. 35;
6 Bagatelles, Op. 126; 6 Ecossaises, WoO 83 (1985)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 143 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans ~ 30 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | # 412 227-2 | Time: 00:49:56

Like Gilels, Brendel treats the Op. 35 Variations as far more than a poor relation of the Eroica Symphony finale. His approach has less of the urgent, seemingly improvisatory thrust which makes the Gilels DG performance (on LP only) so compelling, but the sharpness with which he characterizes each variation is a delight, each time bringing a moment of revelation, and often relating this essentially middle-period work to much later inspirations. The six Bagatelles of Op. 126 equally find Brendel giving these fragments a weight, concentration and seriousness to reflect what else Beethoven was writing at the time. There is a gruffness of expression with charm eliminated. The third Bagatelle is the more moving for its simple gravity, and only in the final one of the group does Brendel allow himself to relax in persuasive warmth. Fur Elise makes a simple, haunting prelude to the group and the six Ecossaises a jolly postude with Brendel evoking the bluff jollity of Austrian dance music.

Alfred Brendel - Franz Liszt: Sonate H-moll; Après une lecture du Dante; Invocation; La lugubre gondola Nr. 1 & 2 (1990)

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Alfred Brendel - Franz Liszt: Sonate H-moll; Après une lecture du Dante; Invocation; La lugubre gondola Nr. 1 & 2 (1990)

Alfred Brendel - Franz Liszt: Sonate H-moll; Après une lecture du Dante; Invocation; La lugubre gondola Nr. 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 202 Mb | Total time: 66:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 426 753-2 | Recorded: 1981, 1986

Liszt’s sonata is regarded by many as his ultimate masterpiece and it ranks alongside other “greats” in the pantheon of piano repertoire. This was not always the case, however, and in the 19th century it was met with extreme reactions, from admiration to suspicion and envy. The critic Eduard Hanslick declared “Anyone who has heard this and finds it beautiful is beyond help”, while Wagner heaped praised upon it (perhaps unsurprisingly). Alfred Brendel has called it “the most original, powerful and intelligent sonata composed after Beethoven and Schubert”.

Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Forellenquintett / Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor (1995)

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Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Forellenquintett / Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor (1995)

Alfred Brendel, Thomas Zehetmair, Tabea Zimmermann, Richard Duven, Peter Riegelbauer - Schubert: Forellenquintett / Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor (1995)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 365 MB | 01:14:41
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips

Mozart, of course, is probably the archetypal musical prodigy, paraded around Europe, playing, improvising and composing from the ridiculously early age of about four. It used to be thought that Leopold might have done much of his son's early composing, as well as his publicity, but it's clear that even infantile Mozart is streets ahead of his father - witness the latter's supremely facile 'Toy Symphony'. Easier to overlook are the prodigious talents of Franz Schubert. It is astonishing to think that so accomplished a work as 'The Trout' was written when he was a mere 22.

Alfred Brendel, Claudio Abbado - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1992)

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Alfred Brendel, Claudio Abbado - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1992)

Alfred Brendel, Claudio Abbado - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 48:48 | 241 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 432975

…There can be little doubt that it is the orchestra as ever, peerless in Brahms that gives this recording its distinctive character. It provides exactly the right fully-fledged symphonic context for Brendel. It also inspires him to realize the solo part with a weightiness of tone and concentration of line that hasn't always been there to complement the natural clarity of his Brahms. Thus, though individual movement timings are virtually identical with those on Brendel's earlier 1973 Amsterdam version on Philips, the scale and musical reach of the performance is considerably extended, as, indeed, is the shrewdness of page after page of musical detailing.

Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.894 & D.840 (1989)

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Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.894 & D.840 (1989)

Alfred Brendel - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.894 & D.840 (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:45 | 211 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 422 340-2

From 1828 and the three posthumous sonatas Brendel has now gone back in Schubert's life to 1826 and 1825, i.e. to the G major and the unfinished C major sonatas. The G major work was not first published as a "Fantasy" for nothing: though not all that technically demanding, it is one of the most difficult to bring off in view of its leisurely, musing style and general air of benignity. Brendel never for a moment allows attention to wander. He plays it very simply and self-communingly, and somehow mesmerizes you with the raptness and radiance of it all. His lyrical tone is particularly beautiful (though just once or twice his delight in melody causes him to underplay the accompaniment).

Alfred Brendel - Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI-20, XVI-49 (1990)

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Alfred Brendel - Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI-20, XVI-49 (1990)

Alfred Brendel - Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI-20, XVI-49 (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:13 | 239 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 426 815-2

Among his favourite composers, Alfred Brendel has developed a long and fruitful partnership with Joseph Haydn. Exponent of the Viennese Classicism, Haydn seems to be one of the most suitable of composers to Brendel's playing style, from several reasons. Mainly, both the composer and his interpreter exhibit generously quite similar qualities when making music, such as: an unfailing wit, a refined sense of humour, and a tireless disposition to play - to play with emotions, with unanswered questions, even with philosophical or ethical themes.